Nairobi: Rescue teams on Wednesday were looking for a small plane with 10 people on board that went missing north of the Kenyan...
Nairobi: Rescue teams on Wednesday were looking for a small plane with 10 people on board that went missing north of the Kenyan...
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia's parliament approved on Tuesday the government's decision to lift a six-month state of emergency two months earlier than planned, state-affiliated...
Antananarivo: Madagascar's prime minister announced his resignation on Monday in the first step towards the naming of a "consensus" premier to resolve a...
Nairobi, Kenya: Three people have been killed when a building collapsed in Nairobi's low income residential area of Huruma, a police official and...
Kano, Nigeria, Cattle thieves have killed 23 people in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state which has been battling cattle rustling and kidnapping in recent...
Bamako: The UN has called for calm in Mali after dozens of people were hurt during banned opposition protests in Bamako, sparking calls...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Ethiopia's cabinet has approved a draft law aiming to lift the country's state of emergency that was imposed in February...
ABUJA/LONDON: Human traffickers are planning to exploit relaxed Russian visa controls for next month's World Cup to sell Nigerian women into sex work,...
GENEVA: Fighting in the Libyan city of Derna has reached unprecedented levels, with air raids, shelling of residential areas and heavy ground clashes,...
Harare: Zimbabwe will hold a general election on July 30, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday, a vote he has pledged will be...
NAIROBI: Kenyan authorities have arrested the head of the National Youth Service as part of investigations into a $99-million theft of funds, media...
Johannesburg, The mayor of South African capital Pretoria was 'carjacked' outside a restaurant in the early hours of Saturday by an armed gang...
Ouagadougou: The Sahel state of Burkina Faso announced Thursday that it was breaking diplomatic ties with Taiwan. "The Burkina government decided today to...
Harare: Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on Wednesday failed to turn up for a parliamentary hearing where he was due to give evidence...
MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Two new deaths from Ebola and seven new confirmed cases have been recorded in Democratic Republic of Congo,...
BURUNDI: Voters in Burundi have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, the electoral commission said on Monday, ushering in changes that could let the...
Geneva: The spread of Ebola to a major city in Democratic Republic of Congo is worrying but the outlook is much more optimistic...
CAPE TOWN: The South African government has agreed a three-year wage deal with public sector unions, a spokesman for the NEHAWU union, which...
